Film Elitist

Again one of those questions that can be argued on thousands of technicalities.

My favorite is probably at this point and time Scorsese, mainly because of his style and his genre of movies he usually tends to direct.

However that being said (and this is based off of only a few movies of his that I've seen) I'm putting Danny Boyle on this list. I need to see more of his movies, especially his new one "Slumdog Millionare".

- Diderot Reborn -

how are we defining this day and age? Tarantino is distinctly of a different time period than Nolan, for example, and given that George Lucas hasn't directed anything personally that was actually good since the '80's, he's not exactly recent either. are we talking last 40 years? because that's pretty much 2/3 of the big time filmmaking industry anyways.